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UNINA9910133727503321 |
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Gu Ning |
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Designing adaptive virtual worlds / / Ning Gu, Mary Lou Maher; managing editor, Monika Michałowicz; asociate editor, Davina Jackson; language editor, Andrew Kerber |
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De Gruyter, 2014 |
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Warsaw, [Poland] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Open, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 136 pages) : illustrations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Virtual Worlds -- Part II: Rule-based Place Design in 3D Virtual Worlds -- 3 Generative Design Grammars -- 4 Generative Design Agents -- Part III: An Adaptive Virtual Gallery -- 5 A Generative Design Grammar for a Virtual Gallery -- 6 An Adaptive Virtual Gallery -- Part IV: The Future of Adaptive Virtual Worlds -- 7 The Future and Impact of Adaptive Places -- List of Figures -- Index |
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Designing adaptive virtual worlds takes the design of places for education, entertainment, online communities, business, and cultural activities in 3D virtual worlds to a new level. The place metaphor provides a rich source of styles and examples for designing in 3D virtual worlds. This book is one of the first design books in the field showing how those styles can be captured in a design grammar so that unique places can be created through computational agents responding to the changing needs of the people in the virtual world. Applying the techniques introduced in this book has immediate implications on the design of games and functional places in existing virtual world platforms such as Second Life, OpenSim and Active Worlds as well as future virtual worlds in which the boundaries between digital and physical environments blur. |
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UNINA9910777799403321 |
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London Jack |
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The Road / / Jack London; Todd DePastino |
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New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2006] |
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©2006 |
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1-282-27274-8 |
9786613815149 |
0-8135-4012-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Authors, American - 20th century - United States |
Prisoners - United States |
Tramps - United States |
Railroad travel - United States |
Vagrancy |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Selected Bibliography -- A Note on the Text -- The Road -- Explanatory Notes -- About the Editor |
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In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. His adventure was an exaggerated version of the unemployed migrations made by millions of boys, men, and a few women during the original "great depression of the 1890's. By taking to the road, young wayfarers like London forged a vast hobo subculture that was both a product of the new urban industrial order and a challenge to it. As London's experience suggests, this hobo world was born of equal parts desperation and fascination. "I went on 'The Road,'" he writes, "because I couldn't keep away from it . . . Because I was so made that I couldn't work all my life on 'one same shift'; because-well, just because it was easier to than not to." The best stories that London |
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told about his hoboing days can be found in The Road, a collection of nine essays with accompanying illustrations, most of which originally appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1907 and 1908. His virile persona spoke to white middle-class readers who vicariously escaped their desk-bound lives and followed London down the hobo trail. The zest and humor of his tales, as Todd DePastino explains in his lucid introduction, often obscure their depth and complexity. The Road is as much a commentary on London's disillusionment with wealth, celebrity, and the literary marketplace as it is a picaresque memoir of his youth. |
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